(in a good way ) !!!!
More art than landscape photography, IMHO. Wonderful though .
Can you talk us through the process please, Gary?
Yes,
These photos are a complete cop out, as they are so easy to pull off. A few things you need I find to make it work.
1: A good silhouetted skyline *unless it's a full moon and clearish sky
2: Lots of clouds with breaks in them (helps with the streaks)
3: Quite fast cloud movement
4: Bucket loads of Light Pollution
* full moon and clearish sky = completely different ballgame. It can be harder to get a silhouette, and you will normally get daylike colours if you expose for this length of time. Example:
Last night, I actually drove for over an hour around various places I wanted to try, but the sky was crap. It was featureless, quite starry and spits of rain kept hitting the car - so I was worried about the lens getting wet, and the shot being ruined. On the way home, I decided to try one last place, and got lucky I guess.
I setup in the field, and manually focused on the silhouetted skyline, and as I knew the sky was gonna be the star of the show, I wanted to get much more of it that foreground.
Once setup, I started taking exposures at ISO6400, 3200, 1600, and 800. This allowed me to see the various effects without having to wait too long. I wasn't too happy as there was only a smidgen of cloud and lots of stars.
Scenes like that above, whilst they can work for different reasons, are difficult I feel for long exposures. I am not really a huge fan of mega long star trails unless I can get a VERY good foreground too.
I waited about 2 hours in the field overall, and as I was about to leave, the clouds picked up - and luckily, they were coming directly at me, they were full of cracks and features, and I knew I would get a somewhat decent sky. I exposed for 13.5 minutes, and was lucky, as the exposure was just about to blow out.
Once home, I simply played with the white balance, and adjusted the levels.
The combo of light pollution and fast moving clouds is what has caused this, and all without filters - any of us can go out and try it.
I, of course, am kidding . You are certainly getting the best out of that 10 stop matey!
What 10 stop?
Ta!
love that mate - nice subject too .... reminds me of the aurora borealis ..
Thanks, would love to see it for real
Nice Gary
hope your feet have thawed out
Toasty now!
Loving it! I wouldn't mind trying something like that myself; I'd be very interested to hear how you achieved it
See above
It works for me, very arty and also very Gary
Ta
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